Real Estate News

A regularly updated database of real property transactions, including buyers, addresses, dates, prices, square footage and other details for Beaufort County, SC, provided as a joint project of the Beaufort County Auditor, Treasurer and Assessors offices.

Westfield Corp., operator of upscale shopping malls in Los Angeles and dozens of other locations in the U.S. and Britain, is being sold to French commercial real estate giant Unibail-Rodamco in a $16 billion deal, the two companies announced Tuesday.

Residents of a large apartment building in downtown Minneapolis are under orders to surrender their dogs' DNA in a campaign to crack down on poop left on the property, an enforcement strategy that is gaining popularity around the country.

Q: We recently purchased our home in a new gated community that is still under construction. We just learned that the developer is only gating for cars, not the sidewalks. We are concerned pedestrians and solicitors can freely enter our community, defeating the security of being in a gated community. Can we make the developer fix this? – Michael

Medical scams executed on the internet aim to convince respondents that a medical condition is best treated by a non-prescription remedy that only the scamster can provide. In other words, you should ignore your physician, ignore whatever you may have read about your problem in mainstream sources, and buy a cure from a non-credentialed source about whom you know nothing.

Giant new commercial and residential developments in Hardeeville will inevitably have impacts that spill into nearby jurisdictions such as Jasper County, Beaufort County, and the town of Bluffton. Hardeeville leaders are celebrating plans for projects such as Latitude Margaritaville and East Argent, but will those developments challenge recent progress on regional growth management?

The Seattle area has now led the nation in home-price increases for more than a year – the longest streak in the region's history. Just to keep up with those rising prices, would-be buyers needed an $11,000 pay raise in the past year to afford the typical mortgage.

Thinking about buying your first home? Before you can unlock the door to homeownership, you have to take some important first steps. From finding the perfect location to financing your purchase, shopping for your first home has challenges that go beyond curb appeal and interior features.

Q: We bought a house in late September. We just got the tax bill in the mail for the full year. It does not seem fair for us to pay the whole year when the seller lived there most of it. Do we need to pay all of this? – Andres